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TwitterPhoto: Teresa Trimm You know those few people in your life that EVERYONE likes? They are just so damned positive, outgoing, funny, and pleasant to be around that they get along with the world. I’ve been lucky enough to know a few of those people in my life, but with one of them a key [...]
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The Benefits of Challenges
Photo: aspheric lens For the past few weeks I’ve been struggling with an injury. As I’ve mentioned here, here, and here, sports (especially running) are a big part of my life, so being injured really sucks. I’m a very active person and have maintained a consistent workout regimen for the last 15 years. This injury [...]
Your Job Doesn’t Make You Better Than Anyone Else
Photo: Paul G I play on two soccer leagues in Chicago, and while I never played in high school so my skills are limited, I really love playing. It’s a great workout (especially to add variety to the running), it’s fun, and I happen to be play with some really cool, talented folks. Throw in [...]
How to Be Remarkable (While Most Everyone Else is Terrible)
Photo: Steven Depolo This is an excerpt from post I did for Brazen Careerist, a great social network for Generation Y professionals. To read the article in its entirety, check out the link to Brazen’s site below. [Update - full article now available below] One aspect of professional life that transcends industries, companies, cultures and geography is [...]
Open Letter to Amazon Job Search Book Reviewer
Photo: Ben Grantham I was looking at a job search book on Amazon today and stumbled upon a few of the reader comments. The first review made a point that struck me as both legitimate and bullshit at the same time. How’s that possible? Allow me to explain.
How to Effectively Offer Help
Photo: Elijah Nouvelage “Let me know if there’s anything I can do to help.” What is that? Is it really an offer to help? Or is it an empty nicety – something pleasant people say without really meaning anything? I spend a lot of time thinking and writing about how people conduct themselves as co-workers, [...]
Now is the Time!
Photo: Luke X. Martin (Ready, set, go!) When I was 22, I read the book Zen in the Martial Arts.* While I’m certainly not a Zen practitioner (or a hippie), I do believe that the power of the human mind is far greater than most of us know or will ever know. Stories of Buddhist monks [...]
How the Job Search and Your Love Life Are the Same
Photo: Tristan Nitot This is a post I originally did for Brazen Careerist, a great social network for Generation Y professionals. The post is now available in its entirety below. Okay, comparing a job search to dating is not exactly new. I Googled the phrase “job hunting is like dating” and found more than 9,500 results. So, yeah, [...]
Networking – Get Yourself Out There!
(Photo: orangejack) I had a great conversation today and it reminded me of the value of networking (not that I need a ton of reminding, I talk about it here, here, and here). Getting yourself out there, any and every way possible, is the best and often only path to where you need to be. [...]
Don’t be an Asshole, Part one – Stop Lying
Photo: BFLV OK – this is the first post in a series called “Don’t be an Asshole.” The Don’t be an Asshole series will be made up of topics covering perfectly obvious things that tons of people forget or just don’t care about. I know this is pretty basic, but I see it so often [...]
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